>>Do you think that will help? I sure can try that. I wasn't aware of the ALIAS command.
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>This will not help, bacause the default alias is the name of the table. So USE DEAL ALIAS DEAL and USE DEAL are synonymous.
What if DEAL is already open in shared mode? It will open it with different alias (A or B).
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